Learn how to formatively assess and grade group work, including learning skills, group interaction skills, and individual achievement.

Learn how to prepare students for school and the real world by teaching them to persevere in the face of frustration and failure.

William Sterrett discusses how principals can maximize their time to meet students' needs, foster innovation and collaboration among teachers, and cultivate success throughout the school.

Use this publication to explain to everyone in your organization why the best way to evaluate teaching performance is to use a balanced approach that includes multiple measures. Drawing from research conducted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the experiences of nearly 3,000 teachers across the United States, the authors Explain why it's critical to measure effective teaching, ensure high-quality data, and invest in improvement. Describe multiple ways to identify effective teaching and provide teachers with actionable, reliable information they can trust to continuously improve their...

This publication offers clear and positive strategies that empower teachers and administrators to develop effective rules and consequences. Richard Curwin's approach emphasizes student and parent engagement; schoolwide collaboration; and developing student responsibility. Curwin shows how educators and administrators at all levels can Ensure that classroom and schoolwide rules are meaningful and significant. Involve students to develop effective rules and appropriate consequences. Collaborate with parents and colleagues to foster a sense of community. Treat students fairly by enforcing...

What can you do for students who struggle to set goals, can't seem to follow rules, and frequently go off task? This concise publication explains how teachers in every content area and at every grade level can teach students to be self-regulated learners. Discover instructional strategies that help students learn to Approach challenges with confidence. Plan their learning tactics and maintain focus. Monitor their progress and seek help when they need it. Work well with peers and adjust their approach. Learn how to put all students on the path to positive, empowered learning and greater...

Classroom management may be the hardest part of being a teacher: fraught with power struggles, it often leaves teachers feeling stressed and drained and students feeling mutinous or powerless. Most familiar classroom management practices reflect a dissonance between the rapid pace of change in our culture and the decades-old instruction and management techniques that still form the foundation of our educational system. According to award-winning author and classroom management expert Jane Bluestein, it's long past time for our strategies to catch up to the kids we're teaching. In Managing...

Find out how to make time every day to teach vocabulary through direct, explicit instruction that is also creative, interesting, and fun for students. Teacher and author Marilee Sprenger explains a new and effective approach to teaching vocabulary that calls for exploration, discovery, and playing with words--all in just 10 minutes per class. She offers Advice on how to focus short lessons so that students are fully engaged. Teaching tips that help ensure new words stick. A varied selection of novel strategies for teaching new words to students. Here's a way to jump-start your vocabulary...